Death By Utopia

In 1953, scientist John B. Calhoun created an experiment to
see how mice would behave in a utopia. He introduced q
breeding pairs of mice into a 9. 7 metre square with 1. high
walls, no scarcity, no predators. After 1: 34 days they adjusted
to the new world and the population began to grow, doubling
every 55 days. By day 315 the population reached Emil. Then
population growth began to decline and the mice? society
collasped. Young were expelled before they had been
properly weaned and were arbitrarily attacked and eaten by
Ext es sive aggressive male mic e. Females became more
aggressive, males became passive, not
retaliating to attacks. The last healthy birth came on the
sooth day. Then there were no new mic e.
Then came the ‘beautiful ones', which withdrew themselves
ever so quietly from the sick society. Solitary pursuits began
to define them; eating, drinking and grooming among
others. Ho scars on their back or hairs , these
mice behaved like a separate race. They saw the world
through their narrow scopes, as they tossed, turned and
tried to cope.
There' s a reason we' re
becoming statistically less
socail in first world
countries.

Except 99% of the populous of the 'first world countries' have never been forced into a corner for lack of food or resources. They've never had their new-born children destroyed by the government/a tangled mass.

I get where this is coming from, but it doesn't exactly justify my lurking on a website on a Tuesday night with a couple of beers and headphones on....

That isn't necessarily true at all, I think we may not have much free will not because of emotional reasons but because of simple thought experiments used in philosophy.
such as
Quickly choose someone
Now when you did that you did not cycle through every single person you know and pick one like in a library how you pick a book, you just sub-consciously grabbed a face. You can not consciously pre-determine choices like this, to think about what thought you will think is absurd and just does not happen. You can not control or choose what words you will think of next it just happens naturally.
Also I can not consciously choose to believe that Hitler did nothing wrong, I do not have the ability to do that, I can pretend to believe that Hitler did nothing wrong but I can not actually believe it without reason and evidence. So what I believe isn't part of my free will.

What the flip did you just ******* claim about my comrade, you little banana? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at the logic, euphoria and reason camp, and I’ve been involved in numerous pointless rant videos on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed ***** to give. I am trained in bible warfare and I’m the top shouter in the entire secular armed debating society. You are nothing to me but just another faith-head. I will wipe you the **** out with reason the likes of which has never been comprehended before on this Earth, mark my ******* fedora. You think you can get away with saying that **** to my comrade over the Internet? Think again, ******. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of feminists across the conventions and your IQ is being traced right now so you better prepare for the weather, maggot. The comment that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your ideology. You’re ******* incomprehensible, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can refute your arguments in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my God delusion standard edition with me. Not only am I extensively trained in using long words which I don't understand, but I have multirationalaccessability to the entiritium voccalubatoriam of the United States Secular Club and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable opinions off the face of the forum, you little ****. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your ******* fedora. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you Darwindamn idiot. I will spit dorito fury all over you and you will drown in my mountain dew. You’re ******* belief system is dead, the amount of euphoria in my fedora is enough to fuel my erection for another 10 minutes.

Haven't you noticed whats been happening? Economy is ****, like, smelly, squishy ****, the worst type of ****. And that has been getting worse, and worse. Which will lead to a social collapse soon if it isn't fixed, and so far it hasn't been fixed.

Just seems a bit of a jump to say the poor economy will lead to a societal collapse. The economy has been worse before and even during this current decade. Are there any statistics to support your claim?

Well why I say that is, the economy has been bad for a while now, and nothing has been done about, that was a success, and if it keeps up like this, in which I think it will, stuff'll happen, and with a economy collapse, *Which I think will happen* will lead to rioting 'n stuff. I don't have anything to back up my claims, but there is stuff too, I just don't have any to show you.

The economy was pretty bad but as the graph shows, following the 2009 collapse, the US' GDP stabilized reasonably well and is currently on the upswing. The economy isn't as bad as fox news would have you believe and if people didn't riot in 2009 it's going to take something big to cause the collapse that you believe is impending. Nevertheless, I respect your opinion and appreciate hearing another side of it.

"Making the leap from mouse to man, however, was not so simple. “This is where it gets controversial,” Dr. Edmund Ramsden of the University of Exeter and the London School of Economics said, describing how other scientists tried to replicate Calhoun’s results in human populations. He cited psychologist Jonathan Freedman's experiment, where he recruited high school and university students to carry out a series of experiments that measured the effects of density on behavior. He measured their stress, discomfort, aggression, competitiveness and general unpleasantness. When he declared to have found no appreciative negative effects in 1975, the tide began to turn on Calhoun’s utopia. Freedman’s work, Ramsden noted, suggested that density was no longer a primary explanatory variable for society’s ruin. A distinction was drawn between animals and humans. “Rats may suffer from crowding; human beings can cope...Calhoun’s research was seen not only as questionable, but also as dangerous."

Yeah. I really don't care what people think about this, but the text itself is awfully redacted. So here is some nicely done version courtesy of wikipedia: Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly. The last surviving birth was on day 600. This period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior. Among the aberrations in behavior were the following: expulsion of young before weaning was complete, wounding of young, inability of dominant males to maintain the defense of their territory and females, aggressive behavior of females, passivity of non-dominant males with increased attacks on each other which were not defended against. After day 600 the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed “the beautiful ones”.